The strangest place yet that I have seen iPods show up so far is in vending machines from this story in iTworld.
You want an iPod? It’s over there: just beneath the NyQuil and next to the Gatorade. Apple Computer Inc.’s hot digital music players may be better associated with the Cupertino, California, company’s hip Apple Stores, but over the past few months, they’ve also started to pop up next to less exotic products in special vending machines built by Zoom Systems.
Since April, the San Francisco company has been selling iPods across the U.S. in “robotic product delivery systems” (don’t say the words “vending machine” around Zoom Systems executives; they find the term archaic). The first iPods were sold in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and the players can now be found in “Zoom Shop” machines operating in malls, hotels and grocery stores across the country, the company said.
